An entrancing tale of cross-disciplinary bridge building and burning in ethnopsychophysiomusicology
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2009-04
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Empirical Musicology Review
Abstract
Having a paper accepted for publication is challenging, even under the best
of circumstances, as when reporting an incremental finding in a field that is one’s home
discipline. The process becomes considerably more difficult when venturing into foreign
disciplines in which methodological conventions and assumptions may differ from those
one is familiar with. Provocative topics may further exacerbate the reticence of reviewers
and editors to welcome cross-disciplinary research to a journal’s pages. Here, a pair of
papers, one of which describes a study of possible physiological correlates of music-
induced trance states, and the other which describes the challenging journey to get the
research performed and published, provide a case study for examining whether
epistemological divides can be bridged in the face of editorial obstinacy.
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editorial review, epistemology, bias, music, emotion
Citation
Empirical Musicology Review, v4 n2 (April 2009), 78-81